Adam B. Jaffe is Professor of Economics at Brandeis University, and
co-organizer of the Innovation Policy and Economy (IPE) group of the National
Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Previously, he was Assistant
and then Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
During 1992-4 he visited the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Professor Jaffe's areas of specialization are the economics of technological
change, the economic impact of publicly funded research, and the economics
of regulated industries. He has published on various topics including
industrial research and development, the economics of basic research and
universities, incentive regulation and regulatory reform, and the determinants
of the diffusion of new technologies.

During academic year 1990-91, Prof. Jaffe took leave from Harvard to
serve as Senior Staff Economist at the President's Council of Economic
Advisers in Washington, DC, where he had primary staff responsibility for
energy policy, technology policy, and regulatory policy. Professor
Jaffe received his S.B. in Chemistry (1976) and his S.M. in Technology
and Policy (1978) from M.I.T., and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard
University (1985). He is a member of the Board of Editors of the
American Economic Review, and Associate Editor of the Rand Journal of Economics,
and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics.